Improvement in hay-loaders



NITEDi STATES OFFICE.

HARVEY HLL, or wnsr EXETER, New YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN l-IAVY-LOADERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 74,226, dated February 11, 1868.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARVEY HULL, of West Exeter, in the county of Otsego and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hay-Loadin g Wagons; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the same, sufficient to enable others skilled in the devices to which my invention appertains to fully understand and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which make part of this specification, and in which- Figures 1 and 2, Sheet l, are perspective views of my device. Fig. 3, Sheet 2, is a bottom view ot' the same, and Fig. 4 a detached view of the steeringrod.

Like letters indicate like parts in the several figures.

The nature ot my invention consists inthe peculiar device for a hay-loading wagon, by means of which hay may be roped at a great saving of labor and time.

A in the drawings may represent the body of the wagon, provided with side-boards B. This body rests upon the front and rear trucks, C D, which are connected to each other by reaches E and F. The front truck, C, is pivoted on a shaft, c, held where the reaches E and F meet, and is provided with wings a b. Securely attached to the truck O is the endboard Gr, either by bolts or hooks, being lirmly held by metal braces d e. The rear truck is not movable, and has an end-board, H, attached similarly as the end-board G, by braces f g. The end-board H has hinged to itin any convenient manner another board, I, serving as a foot-board, which is provided with two projections or spurs, It t. The outer ends of the braces d e f g are provided with holes, and serve for means of attaching the tongue J, which is provided with two hooks, j j. The wing a is provided with a hole, through which and a corresponding hole in the body A of the wagon a pin, a', passes when it is desired to render the front truck rigid.

K is a bent handle, provided with pins h h2 near the bend and at the end ot' the shorter arm. These pins tit into holes l l in the body of the wagon and end-board G, as shown in Fig. 2.

A rope, L, provided at each end with a loop,

and of sufiicient or suitable length, completes the device.

Its operation is as follows: The wagon may leave the the barn in theposition shown in Fig. 2. The loops ot' the rope L may be placed over the hooks j j of the tongue J, which are then slipped into the braces f g, the foot-board I being turned up and inward, as shown, the pin a drawn out of its holes, and the handle K inserted into the holes l l. The driver stands upon the wagon and steers the same by means ot the handle K, the truck D now being in front and immovable laterally. Arrived at the hay-iield, the wagon is driven close up to the hay, the tonguej detached, the rope L unhooked from the hook j, the board I turned down so that the spurs It t' are driven into the ground, by means of which the wagon is securely anchored, the pin a inserted in its place to prevent the truck C from moving laterally, and the handle K unshipped. The horses are now driven on one side of the hay, the rope L dragging along. The horses are then started across the hay and back toward the wagon, the rope L reattached to the hook j, when a sutlicient load of hay is in position to be roped. The horses are then driven over the boards I H onto the body of the wagon, the tongue, with the rope still attached to it,

inserted into the braces d e, and the pin a',

withdrawn, when the load can be hauled right into the barn, and either at once elevated into the loft or dropped onto the oor by detaching the tongue and driving the horses toward the other end of the barn. By unhooking one end of the rope L the latter is then withdrawn, the horses driven around the barn, and the tongue again attached to the truck D, as already described, when the operation can be repeated.

The great advantage of my improvement is that one man with a team of horses can do as much work in bringing in hay than by loading it with forks and common wagon can be done by four men and a driver in the same time.

The body A and the foot and end boards may be so constructed that they may be attached to any pair of trucks now in use by farmers.

The win gs a b'serve to prevent any hay from falling off the Wagon when the truck C is The above specicaticn or" my improvement turned either Way. in hay-loaders signed this 6th day of Novem- Having thus described my invention, what ber, 1867. I claim as nevir therein, and desire to secure by HARVEY HULL Letters Patent, isy A hay-loading Wagon so constructed that 4 Witnesses:

the draft-horses may travel over the same and W. A. HULL, draw it from either end, substantially as de- ALEX. A. C. KLAUCKE. scribed. 

